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Articles of the author Iris Boutros
Opinion| UK economy in decline, Truss' government will not turn things around
About two decades ago when I was first learning about economic growth, my classmates were dubious of a prediction I made. The economy credited with the Industrial Revolution — the beginning of modern economic growth — would decline and never again (...)

05 - 10 - 2022
Opinion| Oppressing women, from Tehran to Washington, is it about sustaining the patriarchy or money?
The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while detained by the Iranian morality police for allegedly violating dress rules has tapped into outrage in and outside Iran over women's rights, and inside the country over economic and political (...)

28 - 09 - 2022
Three things to learn from Prince Harry about trauma and family
Walking behind Queen Elizabeth II's coffin last week might have transported Prince Harry back 25 years to the same walk after his mother's tragic death – I say transport, not remind, because that's how trauma works. When Prince Harry lost his loving (...)

22 - 09 - 2022
Queen Elizabeth's death and the anger on #IrishTwitter, #BlackTwitter and #BrownTwitter
A Tik Tok video of five young men Irish dancing to "Another one bites the dust," the famous song by British band Queen, in front of London's Buckingham Palace has about a million views on Twitter. It was posted the day of Queen Elizabeth II's death. (...)

15 - 09 - 2022
Opinion| When 51% of decision makers admit preferring to hire men, why not be truthful in IT?
As part of a study of market demanded job skills in four industries, when directly asked, 51% of decision makers admitted to preferring to hire men over women. Recruitment preferences were estimated directly and indirectly to determine whether (...)

08 - 09 - 2022
Opinion| Why are millions of workers quitting, and what is the cost of this trend?
During the COVID-19 pandemic, millions either quit their jobs or outright lost them. While the pandemic was a trigger and a major shock, it still does not explain the degree of changes that have occurred in global labour markets, but it has (...)

24 - 08 - 2022
Opinion| Egypt and the IMF: Where the current path began?
Egypt is continuing discussions with the IMF working towards a staff-level agreement, after which the IMF's Executive Board would vote to approve Egypt's programme. In 2012, Egypt reached a staff-level agreement with the IMF for about $4.8bn, a part (...)

11 - 08 - 2022
Opinion| Egypt's cash transfers: Considering costs and benefits of conditions and community monitoring
Last week, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi directed the government to expand social protection, including increasing the Takaful and Karama cash transfer programme's beneficiaries to more than 20 million citizens nationwide. The expansion of social (...)

04 - 08 - 2022
Opinion| Egypt's wheat problem: A matter of fiscal management rather than global circumstance
The continued disruption to wheat markets from the Russian invasion of Ukraine predictably draws global attention to Egypt's own "wheat problem." The absurdly high quantities of international wheat procured, and money spent consistently place Egypt (...)

26 - 07 - 2022
Opinion| Are you worried about rising prices and inflation?
Worrying about rising prices and inflation is natural. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine on markets has been extraordinarily taxing, but what about worry itself? A globally shared event, the COVID pandemic made (...)

19 - 07 - 2022
Why do Arab economies and societies need more women like Ons Jabeur and Bassant Hemida?
Ons Jabeur and Bassant Hemida gave Arabs tremendous joy, pride, and hope last week. The Tunisian professional tennis player and the Egyptian Olympic sprinter, respectively, did one of the most difficult things to do in Arab societies – translate (...)

14 - 07 - 2022
Opinion| Mohamed Salah, Serena Williams, and work environments
Mohamed Salah is currently one of the best football players in the world. At Liverpool, he has performed better than anywhere else in his career. Serena Williams is a GOAT, achieving the greatest of all-time status. She became a GOAT in a hostile (...)

29 - 06 - 2022
‘Let them eat cake', part 2
When Gouda Abdel Khalek was Minister of Supply in March of 2012 he made a very "novel" suggestion— not the good kind of novel. At the time, Egypt's food subsidy programme supplies were woefully insufficient to feed the millions of Egyptians (...)

03 - 03 - 2014
The difference between Reform and reform
"To better serve farmers." The goals are a more productive agricultural sector and improved food security for Egypt's population. Key is improving the services of the Principal Bank for Development and Agricultural Credit (PBDAC), said Minister of (...)

10 - 02 - 2014
Will women Rise Up as Egypt's entrepreneurs?
Rise Up, Egypt's first major entrepreneurial summit held in Cairo on November 24- 25 was a resounding success. It brought together many different and important players from the entrepreneurial ecosystem: investors, accelerators, corporates, civil (...)

25 - 11 - 2013
The social businesses to turn Egypt's black skies blue
It's that time of year. Black skies over Cairo and all over Egypt's Delta mean the rice farmers are burning their straw. They will be burning about four millions tonnes of rice straw these recent weeks so they can prepare their fields for the next (...)

18 - 11 - 2013
Powering economic equality: GE, Ashoka Changemakers and social entrepreneurs
Three social entrepreneurs will receive cash prizes from GE and Ashoka Changemakers in the Women Powering Work competition for innovations that will advance economic opportunities for women in the MENA region. Better integrating women in the labour (...)

05 - 11 - 2013
Egyptian female youth and their labour market
Recently, I was stunned. I had quite a surprising experience while interviewing a young, Egyptian woman for a basic entry-level analyst-type position. From my perspective, the interview was going well. The young woman was bright and seemed to have (...)

28 - 10 - 2013
Social enterprises: The missing piece to protecting Egypt's natural treasures?
Last week I was in paradise, a total state of calm and peace unknown to me since the dispersal of the sit-ins on 14 August. Rather than focus on conflict, clashes and blood, I was in awe of yet another one of Egypt's many treasures: the beauty of (...)

21 - 10 - 2013
Getting in the way: politics and doing business in Egypt
"If it bleeds, it leads." That news industry fundamental is Minister of Tourism Hisham Zaazou's October 7 morning business challenge. The leading stories by news agencies all over the world about the clashes that erupted in Cairo and other parts of (...)

07 - 10 - 2013
The ‘minimum wage' defeat for ten million
There have been mixed reactions to this week's announcement of a new public sector minimum total income of EGP1,200 per month to come into effect in January of 2014. Many are unsatisfied – unsatisfied with the EGP1,200 figure, the target of total (...)

23 - 09 - 2013
Stop the battle cries, people need hope
The gas bill collector cried at my door. He is not a young man but an Egyptian man in his mid-forties, who is a husband and a father. Culturally, men are not supposed to cry, but nevertheless, he did. He fought the tears in his eyes and the lump in (...)

09 - 09 - 2013
More than 700 million worth of positive signals in Egypt
The ‘Egypt Support' Fund, the 306306 account, has exceeded EGP 700m according to Ashraf El-Araby, Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, in the less than two months since its creation. Two other similar funds had been established since (...)

02 - 09 - 2013
Egyptian opinion on sit-in dispersals: Finding truth in reported facts
A recent poll suggests that 67% of Egyptians are "satisfied with the manner" in which security forces dispersed the sit-ins at Rabaa Al-Adaweya and Nahda Square. Meanwhile a different poll suggests that 79% of Egyptians believe the "massacres" on 14 (...)

26 - 08 - 2013
Opportunity as social justice
Interim president Adly Mansour gave an excellent interview on state TV Saturday. He was very frank and clear about major challenges Egypt faces. A high priority for him is the implementation of the law on minimum and maximum wages. Setting a minimum (...)

23 - 07 - 2013
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